X vs. CMC, CRS, STLD, TX, MT, CLF, KGC, RGLD, AU, and GGB
Should you be buying United States Steel stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of United States Steel include Commercial Metals (CMC), Carpenter Technology (CRS), Steel Dynamics (STLD), Ternium (TX), ArcelorMittal (MT), Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF), Kinross Gold (KGC), Royal Gold (RGLD), AngloGold Ashanti (AU), and Gerdau (GGB). These companies are all part of the "basic materials" sector.
Commercial Metals (NYSE:CMC) and United States Steel (NYSE:X) are both mid-cap basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
Commercial Metals pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. United States Steel pays an annual dividend of $0.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Commercial Metals pays out 12.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. United States Steel pays out 5.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Commercial Metals has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. Commercial Metals is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
86.9% of Commercial Metals shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.9% of United States Steel shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Commercial Metals shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of United States Steel shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Commercial Metals currently has a consensus target price of $57.67, suggesting a potential upside of 7.83%. United States Steel has a consensus target price of $37.89, suggesting a potential upside of 1.25%. Given United States Steel's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Commercial Metals is more favorable than United States Steel.
In the previous week, United States Steel had 6 more articles in the media than Commercial Metals. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for United States Steel and 6 mentions for Commercial Metals. United States Steel's average media sentiment score of 0.81 beat Commercial Metals' score of 0.74 indicating that Commercial Metals is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Commercial Metals has a net margin of 8.09% compared to Commercial Metals' net margin of 4.96%. United States Steel's return on equity of 17.72% beat Commercial Metals' return on equity.
United States Steel has higher revenue and earnings than Commercial Metals. Commercial Metals is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than United States Steel, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
United States Steel received 579 more outperform votes than Commercial Metals when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.86% of users gave United States Steel an outperform vote while only 54.17% of users gave Commercial Metals an outperform vote.
Commercial Metals has a beta of 1.33, suggesting that its stock price is 33% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, United States Steel has a beta of 2, suggesting that its stock price is 100% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Commercial Metals beats United States Steel on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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